The 5-second check for the levy figure buried in the strata papers.

No. LevyLens provides general information only: a pre-purchase screen of strata levy risk, not personal financial, legal or conveyancing advice. It does not assess your financial position or tell you whether to buy. For decisions about a purchase, speak with your conveyancer and a licensed professional.

The screen reads public data and flags risk patterns; the buying decision stays with you and your advisers.

Publicly available listing and scheme data: advertised levies, listing histories and scheme-level records where they can be found. Coverage varies by state and by scheme. The report states explicitly where data was available and where it was thin, rather than guessing.

If a scheme leaves no public trail, the report says so plainly instead of inventing a verdict.

Then the report says so, plainly, and flags exactly what is missing so you know what to ask the agent or strata manager for. The policy is a full refund where no material data can be sourced, issued within 24 hours, with no arguments.

A thin-data verdict with named gaps is more useful than a confident guess built on nothing.

No, it complements one. Always commission a professional strata records search through your conveyancer before purchase. LevyLens is the early screen that tells you which listings deserve that deeper and more expensive look, so you spend the inspection fee where it counts.

Run the screen first, then order the full records search on the shortlisted properties.

Yes. Request the strata records through the selling agent and read two years of levy history line by line: free, slow, and written for lawyers. The screen exists for everyone who will not do that by hand, or who wants the red flags translated into plain English first.

If you enjoy reading committee minutes, the DIY path is genuinely free and thorough.

The screen is designed Australia-wide, but data availability differs by state and by scheme. Strata terminology and record-keeping vary across jurisdictions. The report is upfront about any coverage gaps for your specific property, so you know exactly what the verdict rests on.

NSW schemes tend to leave the clearest public trail; thinner states get a thinner verdict.

You pay A$129 (AUD, GST incl) at checkout, one-off per property. After payment you land on your report-request page: email your receipt plus the property details, and a person writes the report for you within 3 business days. If no material data can be sourced, you get a full refund within 24 hours of the verdict.

One property, one report, one payment: there is no subscription and no upsell.

Drift is a levy rising faster than the suburb year after year: expensive, but predictable. Shock is a sudden step-change: a special levy or a deferred capital project landing all at once. The screen flags both, but they are different risks with different remedies.

Drift erodes your budget; shock breaks it. Know which one you are looking at before you bid.

Your quarterly levy has two parts: the admin fund for day-to-day running, like insurance, cleaning and management, and the capital works fund for long-term repairs, like the roof, facade and lifts. A special levy is a one-off extra charge, usually for big repairs the capital works fund cannot cover.

Your share of each is set by your unit entitlement. The screen reads all three and translates what they mean for your budget.

One written digital report for one property, prepared manually and delivered to your email within 3 business days of your report request. It covers the levy trajectory against comparable benchmarks, special-levy risk signals, capital-works fund health proxies, plain-English red flags, and a checklist of questions for your conveyancer.

Every report states explicitly where data was thin instead of guessing. One property, one report, one payment, no subscription.

Changed your mind before requesting the report? Email fairformco@gmail.com and you get a full refund, no arguments. Once the report has started, there are no change-of-mind refunds, but Australian Consumer Law guarantees still apply. The dividing line is the moment work begins on your file.

Request the report only when you are ready to proceed; the refund window closes when work starts.

An independent Australian publisher of compliance checklists. The screen is built from publicly available listing and scheme data, checked 2026-10-04, and every report states explicitly where data was thin instead of guessing. The product is the method, not a claim about any individual scheme.

The honest bit: if no material data can be sourced for your property, you get a full refund within 24 hours, no arguments.

You can: request the records through the selling agent and read two years of levy history. It is free, slow, and written for lawyers. The screen translates the red flags first, for everyone who will not do that by hand, and a general AI cannot see the scheme records at all.

Use whichever path you will actually complete before auction day.

No. LevyLens publishes general information: a pre-purchase screen, not personal financial, legal or conveyancing advice. It does not assess your situation or predict what a scheme will do. Always commission a professional strata records search through your conveyancer before purchase.

The screen narrows the field; your conveyancer and the records search close the deal.